Has the free ESXi survived the turmoil?
Free esxi is pretty crippled at this point, esp for high core counts. Proxmox is the way to go!
What about Nutanix?
VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
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#12Has the free ESXi survived the turmoil?
> Here is a list of products impacted by the new licensing policy:
VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware vSphere
VMware vSAN
VMware NSX
VMware HCX
VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCloud Suite
VMware Aria Suite
VMware Aria Universal
VMware Aria Automation
VMware Aria Operations
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#13My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Proxmox seems poised to benefit from this; is Openstack in a situation where it could be reasonably rolled out as a substitute for vSphere without requiring significant staff increases?
OpenStack provides a different axis of offering than vCenter. It's more aligned for multi-tenant, API driven use cases, ala cloud. Of course, you could open access to only the virtualization team, but they'd likely find the console experience frustrating. VMware even has an OpenStack product that is built on vSphere virtualization and NSX-T software defined networking. The challenge is that companies architect their…
Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! Otherwise, prepare to invest in other ways. I'm not going to say VMware has a super intuitive system, but I've gotten surprisingly far at times without a lot of deep knowledge. Well, until the *nix-like kernel in the hypervisor misbehaves....
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This isn't enshittification. This is a sustainable business bought by a greedy business to then squeeze dry their customers.
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#15I'm used to corporate marketing speak, but damn this is impresively corporate orwellian. This is real copy/paste from TFA, not some parody that I wrote.
> Q: Why is this good for partners?
> A: The industry has already widely embraced subscription and SaaS, and many partners in our ecosystem have already developed success practices in this area. Subscription and SaaS models provide an opportunity for partners to engage more strategically with customers and deliver higher-value services that drive customer success. It also helps accelerate their own transition to a business model focused on annual recurring revenue.
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#16My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Proxmox seems poised to benefit from this; is Openstack in a situation where it could be reasonably rolled out as a substitute for vSphere without requiring significant staff increases?
OpenStack provides a different axis of offering than vCenter. It's more aligned for multi-tenant, API driven use cases, ala cloud. Of course, you could open access to only the virtualization team, but they'd likely find the console experience frustrating. VMware even has an OpenStack product that is built on vSphere virtualization and NSX-T software defined networking. The challenge is that companies architect their…
There is also Rancher Harvester (https://harvesterhci.io/) which I think is a breadth of fresh air compared to VMware and OpenStack and then there is the Windows Server based Azure Stack HCI, too. In my experience, VMware‘s biggest moat is the vast support from software vendors. It basically is the default supported platform for almost every business application. This comes with well known best practices, many experienced admins, out of the box solutions from hardware vendors and highly standardized managed services. Most apps leave VMware for the cloud or Kubernetes but not another on-prem VM platform.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Free esxi is pretty crippled at this point, esp for high core counts. Proxmox is the way to go!
What about Nutanix?
Nutanix has a Community Edition which works well, but has some fairly strict requirements due to the overhead of their controller VMs and such
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I wonder at what point does SaaS become a national security risk in the event of a solar event, (biggest-ever) cyber attack, terrorist attack, or some other calamity that takes down the internet for an extended period? Having virtualization software like vmware as-a-service would cause 2nd-order effects if it couldn't phone-home to renew activation.
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#19I'm used to corporate marketing speak, but damn this is impresively corporate orwellian. This is real copy/paste from TFA, not some parody that I wrote. > Q: Why is this good for partners? > A: The industry has already widely embraced subscription and SaaS, and many partners in our ecosystem have already developed success practices in this area. Subscription and SaaS models provide an opportunity for partners to enga…
This is so hilariously out of touch that I would have believed it was satire without context. This is viral copy-paste quality material.
Re: VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
#20I'm used to corporate marketing speak, but damn this is impresively corporate orwellian. This is real copy/paste from TFA, not some parody that I wrote. > Q: Why is this good for partners? > A: The industry has already widely embraced subscription and SaaS, and many partners in our ecosystem have already developed success practices in this area. Subscription and SaaS models provide an opportunity for partners to enga…
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